Mail and .Mac Mail

Hi.
I am switching over to .Mac mail and I think I have have done something wrong. I have a gmail account too, but I'd rather just use one (.Mac) account.
After I draft an email in OSX mail, I then select which server to use to send the email. My gmail outgoing server works fine but the .Mac sever in the dropdown box says (offline) all the time and therefore doesn't work.
Any idea what I have done wrong?

Changing the port didn't help me. What did help was in Mail-preferences deleting the smtp-connection and maually add a new one (with the same name/ip and port). After that sending mail worked as good as in 10.4
Willem-Jan

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> Sounds like what you're saying that in order for both .Mac and my mail.app to sync they both have to be marked ".Mac account" and not "on my Mac". That way they both operate from the main Mac server. Am I heading in the right direction?
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